Book-length Biographies Published by ASME [*now out of print]

John Fritz, Autobiography of John Fritz (N.Y.: ASME, 1912). 326 pp., Illus. Trade edition by John Wiley & Sons. Includes accounts of testimonial dinners given In 1892, when Fritz was 70, and of the banquet "to celebrate the foundation of the John Fritz Gold Medal," held In 1902 (pp. 227-318). Fritz (18221913) was a pioneer In the Iron and steel Industry.

Henry G. Prout, A Life of George Westinghouse (N.Y.: ASME, 1921). 375 pp., Illus. Trade edition by Charles Scribner's Sons. Prout wrote this book "for a committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers," whose chairman was Charles A. Terry. Both Prout and Terry were associates of Westinghouse. Westinghouse (1846-1914) was inventor of the railroad airbrake and founder of the steam turbine and electrical equipment company bearing his name.

Frank B. Copley, Frederick Winslow Taylor (2 vols., N.Y.: ASME, 1923). 467, 472 pp., Illus. Trade edition by Harper & Brothers. Taylor (1856-1915) was chiefly responsible, both as author and promoter, for the modern scientific management movement.

John A. Brashear; The Autobiography of a Man Who Loved the Stars, William Lucien Scalfe, ed. (N.Y.: ASME, 1924), 262 pp., Illus. The foreword was written and much of the editing was done by Edna Yost. (See her account of Brashear in Dictionary of American Biography). Brashear (1840-1920), prominent maker of astronomical lenses and instruments of precision, was President of ASME in 1915.

Albert W. Smith, John Edson Sweet (N.Y.: ASME, 1925). 220 pp., illus. The author was dean emeritus of the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University. The chairman of the "committee on the Sweet biography" was E. N. Trump. Sweet (1832-19i-6) taught at Cornell from 1873 until 1879, when he organized the Straight Line Engine Works in Syracuse to build steam engines of h Is design.

Albert W. Smith, A Biography of Walter Craig Kerr (N.Y.: ASME, 1927). 191 pp., illus. Kerr (1858-1910), was a founder of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., In effect a New York sales organization for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation of Pittsburgh. This book was published "at the expense of H. H. Westinghouse," brother of George and chairman of Westinghouse Air Brake Company. [ASME, Report and Index, I (1927), 126].

Archibald D. Turnbull, John Stevens; An American Record (N.Y.: ASME, 1928). 545 pp., illus. Trade edition by The Century Company. Stevens (1749-1838) was a pioneer In steamboats and steam railroads. His son Edwin (1795-1868) left the means to establish Stevens Institute of Technology.
The impetus for this book probably came from A. C. Humphreys, past president of ASME and president of Stevens Institute of Technology, to whom It was dedicated; the author was his son-in-law. (Mechanical Engineering, Oct. 1927, p. 1154).

William F. Durand, Robert Henry Thurston (N.Y.: ASME, 1929). 301 pp., illus. Thurston (1839-1903) was in 1880 the first president of ASME; he established mechanical engineering curricula at Stevens and at Cornell; his Influence on engineering education was both profound and lasting. Durand had taught under Thurston at Cornell. Publication of the volume was assisted by the "Gleason Gift." See Reference Note [19].

L. P. Alford, Henry Laurence Gantt (N.Y.: ASME, 1934). 315 pp., illus. Gantt (1861-1910) was a leader in the scientific management movement. The preface of this book quotes large portions of the ASME Biography Committee's specifications as to what a biography "should contain."

Joseph W. Roe, James Hartness (N.Y.: ASME, 1937). 147 pp., illus. Hartness (1861-1934) was a prominent machine tool builder, sometime Governor of Vermont and President of ASME in 1914.

William LeRoy Emmet, The Autobiography of an Engineer (N.Y.: 233 pp., illus. This is the second edition of Emmet's autobiography, first published privately in 1931. He added two chapters to bring the story through the 1930s. Emmet (1859-1941) was responsible for significant innovations in several classes of electrical apparatus.

Fred J. Miller (N.Y.: ASME 1941). Miller (1857-1939) was an early editor of American Machinist who moved subsequently to the typewriter industry. This book, paperbound, consists of the biographical sketch prepared by a committee of five, including Morris Cooke and Fred Colvin, and published in ASME Transactions, LX111 (1941), R172-R175, supplemented by excerpts from Miller's writings.

Mortimer E. Cooley, Scientific Blacksmith (N.Y.: ASME, 1947). 290 pp., illus. Trade edition by University of Michigan Press. Cooley (1855-1944) was a public utilities expert, dean of engineering at the University of Michigan, and President of ASME in 1919.

Edna Yost, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Partners for Life (N.Y.: ASME, 1949). 372 pp., illus. Trade edition by Rutgers University Press. Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868-1924) was a pioneer in industrial motion study. Lillian (18781973) had carried on her husband's and her own work for 25 years when this book was published.

William F. Durand, Adventures: In the Navy, in Education, Science, Engineering, and in War: A Life Story (N.Y.: ASME, 1953). 212 pp., illus. Trade edition by McGraw-Hill. Durand (1859-1958) taught at Stanford until 1924, when he was 65; he was consultant on dams from Hetch-Hetchy to Grand Coulee; he contributed importantly to airplane development. He was President of ASME in 1925.

Dexter S. Kimball, I Remember (N.Y.: ASME, 1953). 259 pp., illus. Trade edition by McGraw-Hill. Foreword by Ralph Flanders. Kimball (1865-1952) was dean of engineering at Cornell University.